How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets
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JOHN R. PIERCE, M.D. (Col. MC, U.S. Army, Ret.), wrote the series of articles on which this book is based for Stripe, a publication for Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) personnel and included on dcmilitary.com, a Web site for military personnel in the Washington, D.C., area. Pierce recently retired after thirty years of active duty, a significant portion of that spent at WRAMC. With Pierce, JIM WRITER coedited a supplement to the journal Military Medicine on the 1900 Yellow Fever Board.
Preface vii Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1 1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7 2 The Capital Under Siege 23 3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34 4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47 5 The Nation Threatened 60 6 Yellow Fevers Odd Couple 75 7 Walter Reed 87 8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101 9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135 10 A Soldiers Chances 148 11 Putting It All Together 165 12 Affirmation 173 13 Presentation 189 14 Recognition 205 15 Historic Application 215 16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224 Epilogue: After Cuba 240 Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245 Acknowledgments 249 Notes 250 Bibliography 259 Index 271 Illustrations begin on page 123